Discourse Analysis of Code Switching ,code Mixing in the Algerian Society.

Abstract

Algeria is a perfect multilingual setting to conduct a research concerning the phenomena of code-switching and Code-mixing since they become a common practice among Algerian speech community in general and Tiaritian speech community in particular. As it is the chosen environment to create this work.This research aims at describing and analyzing the use of code switching and code mixing in the Tiaritian speech community. This work employs the qualitative method, data were gathered from a structured interview and unstructured observation, relying on probability and non-probability sampling style in order to confirm the proposed hypothesis about CS and CM.In addition, to discover the reasons that led to the appearance of these phenomena. The respondents were randomly chosen from the city of Tiaret. The results showed that people switch from one language to another for different reasons such as gap filling, prestige, reiteration, floor holding CS. We hope our present research could provide a sufficient amount of information that serves researcher’s coming studies.